Oklo and Idaho National Lab broke ground on the Aurora powerhouse, the first commercial-scale sodium-cooled fast reactor built under DOE’s new Reactor Pilot Program. (IBR)
DOE and Oklo describe Aurora as providing clean, reliable, carbon-free power to meet rising US electricity demand. It’s one of three DOE pilot projects awarded to Oklo, including one through its subsidiary Atomic Alchemy.
The 200 kW reactor will use metal fuel recovered from the Experimental Breeder Reactor II, which operated from 1964 to 1994.